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Craig James says that shares seem to increase in value in December and he suggests that would be a good time to invest> I don't know much but I would suggest that maybe October or even November would be a better time to lay your money down.

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pest from the west

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Upper Lowood QLD

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December 10, 2012, 1:31PM

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Ironore share traders are a reactionary lot. Buy, buy, buy! Push FMG back to 4.50 for a juicy short.

Meanwhile back in the real world"

"China’s massive investment boom was great for hard commodity prices because it created huge Chinese demand – although only 11-12% of the world China now comprises around 40% of global demand for such things as copper and zinc and 60% of global demand for such things as iron and cement. Since rebalancing means, among other things, a sharp drop in investment growth, and perhaps even contraction, while commodity producers have been ramping up production, the result is likely to be a collapse in the prices of hard commodities. This is bad news for Brazil (and Australia)."

William H Overholt (billoverholt@yahoo.com) is senior research fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and the author most recently of Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/NK30Ad02.html

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 1:40PM

It was night A starry moonless sight Out in the mid Atlantic There sailed a ship of light She was big This ship of luxury Everything was peaceful No safer place to be

And she sailed Through the night On her way Down among the dead men Down among the dead men The band played She sailed the virgin She sailed the sea Down among the dead men

Captain Smith The master in command A man with wealth of wisdom A fine upstanding man But the fog He didn't hear the calls The ice mountain was waiting For fifteen hundred souls

And she sailed Through the night On her way Down among the dead men Down among the dead men The band played She sailed the virgin She sailed the sea Down among the dead men Down among the dead men And into history

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Catch 22

Location

Flash and the Pan

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 2:30PM

Craig James says that shares seem to increase in value in December and he suggests that would be a good time to invest> I don't know much but I would suggest that maybe October or even November would be a better time to lay your money down.

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pest from the west

Location

Upper Lowood QLD

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 1:31PM

I think Craigs point is that past performance is always a reliable indicator of future gains. So...it's December....BUY!

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cranberry

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 2:38PM

Any times a great time for James.

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4500

Location

The New Black

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 3:45PM

Closing shorts on Ten for 50% return. The bottom feeders can have the rest.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 1:21PM

The Peoples Court - cue the dramatic music

Scarecrow presiding.....

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Opinion Only

Location

Melbourne

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 12:15PM

good to see a decent rise in FMG today. Should see some further short covering if iron ore continues it's little rally, especially if it breaks $4.

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willo

Location

syd

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:39AM

"Kansai Electric Power Co. said Monday it has reached a long-term agreement with BP plc's subsidiary in Singapore to buy around 500,000 tons of liquefied natural gas annually.

The price of the LNG delivered during the 15-year deal with BP Singapore Pte. Ltd., starting from 2017, will be around 30 percent lower than that of currently purchased LNG, the utility said. The contract will be based on prices in North America, where shale gas development has lowered natural gas prices."

So much for the much lauded gas-oil link in prices in Asia.

How bulletproof are those exising NW Shelf gas contracts I wonder? Colin Barnett may not be able to steal more Aboriginal land after all.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:31AM

Yes, let's put all of our eggs in this great big basket.,,,,

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Catch 22

Location

Titanic

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 1:17PM

I notice that Sirius have asked for a suspension pending further news. My question though; whats the difference bewteen a trading halt and a suspension from offical quotation ? Anyone ?

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Another Grump

Location

Melb

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:16AM

a trading halt is more short term... normally just a few days... suspension from quotation means the same thing really in terms of not being able to trade but can go on for much longer. suspension from quotation is often used when companies need time to negotiate a major deal, are investigating potential insolvency or as a prelude to delisting eg after schemes of arrangement.

What nonsense Anonymous calling for the firing of the hosts, it is the producers that are responsible. Its like yelling at the poor person behind the counter at a shop.

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tango8

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 10:49AM

They set out to get a laugh by holdng someone up to ridicule. This is bullying. I thought we had stopped tolerating bullies. Maybe not, it fits in so well with the so called larrakin element of the aussie character that they like to show off to the world.

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Another Grump

Location

Melb

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:03AM

The worms come out of the woodwork, oops meant Lawyers. make a quid out of anyones misfortune. Its sad enough someone was hurt in the whole episode, but why make it worse?

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petehel

Location

Perth

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:03AM

The person at the counter of the shop committed the crime in this case. Nice try at diverting attention away from these idiots. Not working. The idiot DJs and the idiot lawyers and the idiot management should all be procescuted.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:08AM

You make a good point. The hosts reportedly saught all the approval they were required to by the standards of their employer including a review from legal advisers.

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Seriously...

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:12AM

Make these people regret their actions. The cretins who made the calls should cough up $100 each per week and the moronic imbeciles who run this low company should be also paying out $500 per week to the children of the nurse .Maybe then they will be truly sorry'but I doubt it.

come off it Allan... chances are the Nurse was stressed out and overworked before the call (I'm saying that we don't know the full story of her life). In addition, the hospital probably conducted an inquisition...

Don't like the prank phone calls... see them as childish myself, however people tend to forget about the importance of civil liberties when they join a lynch mob.

That these presenters can make these stupid phone calls provides me with reassurance that actual journalists will not be afraid to ask undiplomatic un pc questions in their pursuit of powerful figures conducting a cover up. Democratic accountabilty comes at a price, in this case a few silly phone calls.

The reported suicide is sad and deeply unfortunate, however the presenters who called the hospital are unlikely to be the full story.

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Seriously...

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 10:19AM

Fair dinkum Allan - calm down mate. I know we're currently in the "Era of Overreaction" but comments like yours are only making this whole thing worse.

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DJCJ

Location

Melbourne

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 10:45AM

Agreed, more of the same of the same morally vacuous organisation. You can fairly bang on about the DJs being scapegoats (it was all fun and games until someone got hurt) yet in my mind it is indicative of not only the organisation's non-existent values but the gutter standard of FM radio. Good riddance.

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Dannym

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 10:49AM

Civil liberties? You come off it. They broke the law by recording and broadcasting a private telephone conversation and exposing a dedicated and conscientious essential service worker to global public ridicule.

These vile radio jocks have been getting away with this sort of rubbish for far too long. They should be made an example of and Southerm Cross Media should be slapped with massive fines and made to pay the family of the nurse at least a couple of million.

And what has this case got to do with journalism? There is no journalism in what they did. It was a childish and destructive prank.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 10:51AM

They have history in this area and are dragging the culture and society in Australia down to the lowest common denominator.As for the DJ's laughing up their sleeves I reckon. Big bucks for magazine rights, a pay rise at austereo. They will dine out on this for years. As they have both said this is the highlight of their careers.

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Another Grump

Location

Melb

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:00AM

DJCJ you and the rest of the apologists should wake up to yourselves. You think it's oh so funny until it happens to you. That's why we need regulation, to keep idiots and their apoligists in check.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:04AM

Allan, I was not laughing at the nurse and I am not aware of anyone who did immediately following the prank.

The point I was trying to make is that only those who knew the Nurse and her life prior to and following the phone call will have a good understanding of all the facts.

For me the most surprising thing is that a depressed and apparently suicidal staffer working in a hospital did not receive some sort of counselling from her colleagues.

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Seriously...

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:21AM

Oh so now it's the hospital's fault for not rectifying the damage caused by the idiot DJs? And if she was too ashamed to admit how she felt to the hospital? You'll go to any lengths to apologise for them.

And you weren't aware of the global ridicule? Wake up.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:35AM

Typically ridiculous comment from you.

One day somebody's going to collate everything you say here/all the 'predictions' you make & call you on them. One by one.

Not everyone who reads Markets Live is going to tolerate the nonsense the moderators seem to allow you to get away with.

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Mr Bungle

Location

Under My Bridge

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 2:59PM

What are you waiting for? I'm ready to debate them now. Question is are you?

Did you miss the Ten short?

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 4:35PM

No board or senior execs at Ten falling on their sword? Typical corporate Australia - it's alway' the market's fault, a middle manager's fault, the union's fault and it worst comes to worst they will move from one organisation to the other.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 9:48AM

Disappointed in you Woolies. This used to belong only to the sleazy end of town. How can you on the one hand profess to be looking after your customers and on the other -------?http://www.theage.com.au/business/punt-on-pokies-proves-a-big-winner-for-woolworths-20121209-2b3mu.html

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Optomist

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 9:06AM

"...Used to belong to the sleazy end of town?" Since when has Woolies been otherwise? Sleazy before, sleazy now.

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Dan

Location

Sydney

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 9:31AM

What exactly has Woolworths done wrong? Legally, morally, ethically? They can only own up to 1/3 of NSW pokies. Doesn't anybody have anytime for the other 2/3?

Seems to be the mindset in Oz these days. If you're successful you MUST be doing something wrong.

So many whingers these days. Everybody is looking for someone else to blame. Personal responsibility is gone, baby gone.

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Space Hippy

Location

70s

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:20AM

And if people are unable to exercise personal responsibility? Woolworths will happily take their last dollar.

You, the average citizen, didn't wear a seatbelt until you were forced to so don't go on about personal responsibility.

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Allan

Location

Prahran

Date and time

December 10, 2012, 11:40AM

Interesting new format. Need to allow direct comment on posts though. Nice to see fairfax is trying something new.